Dr. Mary Yoder: Who did it?
Did you catch Dateline this weekend? It was a story detailing the murder of chiropractic doctor, Mary Yoder. She was poisoned to death.
Was it her employee Kaitlyn Conley who murdered her? Kaitlyn dated Mary’s son, Adam. Was it Adam?
Or was it Mary Yoder’s husband William? Or even still could it have been Dr. Mary Yoder’s sister, Kathleen Richmond, who was having a questionable relationship with Dr. Mary Yoder’s husband William?
The story took some crazy twists and turns and left people guessing hands down.
I saw very strong clues that answered what the truth is in this case for me without a shred of a doubt! It was jaw-dropping for me when I saw it.
I will share my opinion on what I think the truth is (no analysis) in the comment section in the coming days so come and see!
In the meantime, share your opinion in the poll!
It was a fascinating show. My wild guess is that Kaitlyn and William were having an affair. He could have manipulated Kaitlyn into doing it or she could have alone, so they could be together without Mary in the way. Very far fetched and scandalous but, if true, it explains a lot.
I’m still watching. I don’t know the relationship of the woman with dark hair to the mother. But she does an awful lot of what looks almost like smiling. Maybe I’m dreaming.
I just got to the part where Kaitlyn panics about the upcoming trial. Shoot. She looks so helpless in that moment.
I’m so confused. Still watching this thing in pieces.
When Kaitlyn first appears onscreen – her microexpressions give it away. Also, no anger when accused – no anger at all that she’s been wrongfully accused. Right before trial when asked words to the effect of what’s most upsetting to her Kaitlyn doesn’t reply that she’s innocent & has been framed etc. or that Adam did it as she wrote in that letter – an innocent person would have responded that she was innocent & wrongfully accused & have been angry! You’ve taught us well Eyes!
This was a good episode! There are a lot of unanswered questions evidentially. But the fact that Kaitlyn is a horrible actress sealed the deal for me. Because I’ve been an EyesForLies fan for so long, I noticed the same unnaturally soft, sweet voice that Kaitlyn used in all situations. The measured and stilted say she spoke about things that would come bursting out in torrents if a person were falsely accused. But the kick in the gut moment was when Kaitlyn said “It was surreal,” in regards to Mary Yoder’s tragic illness and death. If you freeze-framed Kaitlyn’s face in that moment, you would have thought she was describing opening a Christmas present. It reminded me of the look on Gary Coleman’s widow’s face as she described unplugging his life support.
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on other topic, the daughters…I was amazed how on their crying was. it was all the time. I mean I guess it makes sense but at the same time it really surprised me to what extent like the rythmn of it was constant. No interruptions or crying exhaustion etc.
I noted the daughters did not shed tears while crying either.
I thought the daughter who was the doctor shed tears, that she wiped away, and she also had puckered, oblique eyebrows. The other sister didn’t have the puckered eyebrows so much. But I think her grief was very real, so I’m wondering if she had Botox….
yeah they seemed for real to me, but i sometimes wondered if they were amping it up, if that even makes sense. but it seemed real. they looked almost like ghosts from emotional strain.
very EAGER to hear what you have to say. because i thought this was the weirdest story ever.
In watching the Dateline episode, one person continually revealed clues that identified her as the perpetrator, and it was Kaitlyn. She had so many inconsistencies, she left no doubt she orchestrated this. I don’t believe anyone else did this with her either. I feel for Dr. Mary Yoder’s sister who think Kaitlyn is innocent. They are mistaken, sadly. The jury got this case right.
wow. thank you for sharing.
gives me the creeps. what a crazy action to take. do you buy the motive of “love scorned”??
it’s just creepy that the family kind of treated her like one of their own while she was planning this.
What do you think the motive was?
It’s pure speculation. She showed no emotion at all, which makes me wonder if she had a desire to kill and acted out on it (pure psychopathic). I don’t know if women do that though. The second, more likely suspicion was that she wanted Adam, and she figured if he was really hurting emotionally, he would be vulnerable and need someone and that could possibly be a way to win him back — he the hero rescuer (extreme, evil manipulation to meet her needs). I see her as Jodi Arias-ish, just more “closeted” in her reveals.
i can’t believe this is real life. i can’t.
oh and really starting to drift off topic slightly, but interesting how you can be so evil but look so beautiful. you would think there would be some correlation between looking nice and being nice…..but guess not. not to say that she looks soulful or anything, but she’s got some much more interesting face than Jodi. or she’s got me fooled with more apparent depth. ahhh. gives me the creeps. i am so creeped out. okay, i see lots of student every semester. i really see lots of people. it just seems statistically, one of them might have been somebody like this. i always think about that and it’s really creepy.
I agree that she wanted to “win him back”, even though it’s at odds with a great percentage of their photos together, where she is seen leaning away from him. I thought that strange.
Jodi Arias is the first person who came to mind for me, as well.
Do you still think Amanda Knox was involved in murder ?
I thought Kaitlyn’s 1. shaking her head “yes” and answering “no” when asked if she were guilty, 2. her reaction to the guilty verdict–and her “comforting” her family as she walked out of the court room (I saw the same behavior of a husband who killed his wife, was convicted, and tried to comfort his adult children as he walked out of the courtroom, instead of expressing exasperation and incoherent outrage) –along with 3. her statement “it’s hard to know that I’m innocent” were the biggest pointers to her own guilt, to me.
The three sisters completely put me off the idea of using emotions to make decisions. On the one hand they accuse the husband of committing murder and with the other hand they consider Kaitlyn to be innocent. Both judgements defy the facts and evidence. This is basically the opposite of justice.
I felt the defense shot itself in the foot in the first trial as they tried to blame the husband (Bill), yet admitted to Katie writing a letter stating that Adam confessed. That was completely contradictory. You start to notice that in the second trial that the main theme is that they start blaming Adam instead of Bill because they had to know they had a major hole in that story.
They also asked Katie if she ever poisoned Mary Yoder and she says ‘no’, but her head nods slightly upward in a ‘yes’ motion. And the interrogation where Katie states that poison is a woman’s weapon was pretty damning.